Word: discreeter
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...scurrilous correspondent of the wet Chicago Tribune pretended that the Summits Pontifex also said, last week, "We consider the Volstead Act immoral and contrary to the laws of Christ." Although the Savior and His disciples and the Virgin Mary did, indeed, all drink wine, it is impossible that the discreet Holy Father could have made such a remark within hearing of the world press...
Opened importantly last week the spring and summer salons of many a great Parisian couturier. Since these are no vulgar "fashion shows" a discreet preview was permitted only to authentic amateurs and smartest clients. Soon the elect observed a series of Parisian points sure to mark the orbit of La Mode...
...Leading U. S. correspondents have since revealed that at the time they and the Italian press were compelled to suppress material details of the trial? especially all indications that Signor Mus solini might himself have ordered the crime. After the trial successful Signor Farinacci was allowed to pass into discreet eclipse. Soon his post as Secretary General of the Fascist Party was taken by the present incumbent, harsh but not fanatical Augusto Turati. People were allowed to forget Castor Oil & Bludgeon Man Farinacci. His re-emergence last week on the very pinnacle of power, at the right hand...
...black trousers, and heavy gold earrings. He may even go to Berlin, once in five years, for a jolly convention, and there get into trouble-as a great many Hamburger Guildsmen did last week. Dishonest young Berliners-sneakthieves and bandy-legged pimps-aspire to the Ever Loyal Club. In discreet Berlin police circles it is admitted that the elusive, notorious Club contains the cream of German crookdom. Traditionally a tithe of the loot of each Ever Loyal is contributed to a fund from which lawyers are richly fed when Club members get arrested. Every so often despatches tell that...
...seems that Sadie's angular primitive skull is "the focus of the geometry." Cubism is at its height; the Negro fad starts its blatant vogue with a nude of Black Sadie. From popular artists' model, Sadie proceeds to nightclub fame ending abruptly with a row, murder, discreet fadeaway. On the whole she is glad to be shet of no 'count white folks that treat her as an equal, but the whole gamut of her staccato experience, pertly recorded, actually affects...